Friday, November 6, 2009

I'm So Irritated

and mad, and frustrated....there's so many other words, but you get my drift, right?
I spent all day working on Blood and Water, got all the way to page 97, and I felt really good about the work I'd done.
This morning I was having computer issues, and needed to reboot. I closed everything out to restart.
NONE OF MY EDIT NOTES ARE THERE NOW!
I don't know what happened. My version of Word has an auto save feature, so even if I didn't save the last time I stopped (which I did, and I think I even did so before I closed it out, AND there was no message asking me if I wanted to save first) there should be something to show for yesterday, but there's not.
Argg....I just lost a whole day's worth of work and I don't remember every comment or every note. So, here's my plan for today; wait for my bil to get back to his desk and ask him what happened (although I don't have much hope there's anything he can do at this point).
The second part of my plan? Pretend like it didn't happen and move on. I'll be picking up at page 97, where my big notation of "start here" should be, and going from there. After I'm done, I'll circle around and catch the first 96 pages if they can't be found by someone better with computers than I am.
What else can I do? It looks like I need to push my schedule back though, my new deadline is to have this document, with full edits, to John Walker on Monday, and then pick back up with Claimed on Tuesday (whose edits are still there - I checked).
Okay, venting done, unless I can get a hold of someone on the phone. Time to get back to work.